163 days ago someone bitched about the package lacking a README.Debian.
I attach a slightly modified version of a README. I left some
rapid-specific parts but left some that I consider useful ;-)
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Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 +972-50-7952406
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com
This file describes the changes in the Debian package from the original
asterisk package.
File Locations
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See /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf .
Sounds reside at /usr/share/asterisk/sounds . Voicemail mailboxes, though
are under /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail using symlinks.
User, Groups, Permissions
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By default the package will create user and group 'asterisk' and will
run as them. It will also run with real-time priority (-p) . It will
also add itself to the group audio to enable the daemon to access sound
cards.
To change those you can edit /etc/default/asterisk with defaults in
/etc/init.d/asterisk. If 'USER' is set to an empty value, asterisk will
run as user root.
init.d Script Commands
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In addition to reload, that runs the asterisk CLI command 'reload' there
are also extesions-reload ('extensions reload') and logger-reload
('logger-reload') to load only parts of the configuration file. Let us
know if you find other partial reloads useful.
(currently Rapid-specific. Shouldn't be)
Asterisk needs gets a number of non-default paramters at startup with
the init.d script. For debugging it is often useful to run 'asterisk -c'
or similar. However strange things may happen if you leave out the
options -U. Asterisk may write files with root ownership .
Thus we added the init.d script command 'debug' to start asterisk with
all the default options but also with '-cvvv' . If asterisk fails to
load for a reason you don't understand, try running:
/etc/init.d/asterisk reload
to get a better clue
External Libraries
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The package includes support for h323 .
Include Globs and .d Directories
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(Rapid-specific)
Xorcom Rapid is patched to allow globbing with the '#include' directive
of the Asterisk configuration files. For instance, sip.conf has in its
end:
#include "sip-phones.d/*.conf"
which includes all the .conf files in /etc/asterisk/sip-phones.d
Sip peers can thus be easily defined in a separate file without touching
any existing file. See the current configuration of Xorcom Rapid
for useful usage of this.
